Pariser Einzugsmarsch

The Paris Einzugsmarsch ( Armeemarsch II, 38) is a trot march of the cavalry.

History

The march was composed by Johann Heinrich Walch and was well known already in 1800 in Frankfurt am Main. On 31 March 1814, he was in the presence of Emperor Franz I, Tsar Alexander I and King Frederick William III. played at the end of the Sixth Coalition War in the catchment of the allied troops in Paris. In the army he was the march of the flying units of the Air Force.

Due to the title of the march was during the time of the Empire, but even later during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich into a popular symbol of Franco-German " enmity ". It is reported that France by the German government demanded the status of a guard of honor and a music corps of the army, to accompany the Neuhissung the tricolor at the French embassy in Berlin from the early years of the Weimar Republic of the episode; the flag had been stolen on the occasion of the 14th July from German youth. This demand was perceived in Germany as a great disgrace, and the newspapers of the empire celebrated it as " heroic ", as the forced Honour then marched away to the sounds of the Paris collection march of the French Embassy. In 1940, after the victory of the army over France, the march was played in 1814 as the German invasion of Paris.

In the Armed Forces of the Paris Einzugsmarsch due to its problematic history, and the title is very rarely performed in public, in recent times, however, he finds himself more frequently on recordings German Music Corps. Abroad, he is especially popular in Russia, where since 1814 he is part of the traditional repertoire of military music.